CMLL World Women's Championship

CMLL World Women's Championship
A photograph of a smiling woman with short, brown hair facing right and looking at the viewer while wearing a red sports bra with white stripes Ayumi, 14th CMLL World Women's Champion.
Details
Current champion(s)	Marcela
Date won	April 10, 2015
Date established	June 12, 1992
Promotion	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Statistics First champion(s) Bull Nakano Most reigns Marcela (4 times) Longest reign La Amapola (1,442 days) Shortest reign Marcela (29 days) Oldest winner Marcela (40 years, 282 days) Youngest winner Xóchitl Hamada (22 years, 324 days) Heaviest champion Bull Nakano (91 kg (201 lb)) Lightest champion Hiroka (45 kg (99 lb))

The CMLL World Women's Championship (Campeonato Mundial Femenil de CMLL in Spanish) is the female professional wrestling championship that is most highly promoted by the Mexican lucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The championship has existed since 1992 and is one of two women's championships currently recognized by CMLL; the other is the Mexican National Women's Championship. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. All title matches take place under two out of three falls rules.

Bull Nakano became the first CMLL World Women's Champion after winning a 12-woman battle royal to receive the title on June 12, 1992. Marcela is the current CMLL World Women's Champion, having defeated Syuri on April 10, 2015. This is her fourth reign with the title; she is the 17th overall champion. La Amapola holds the record for the longest reign with 1,442 days. Marcela has had the most reigns, with four. Marcela has had the shortest title reign, at 29 days.

Title history

Key

Reign	The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the titles were won
N/A	The specific information is not known.
—	Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
+	Indicates that the number of days held by this individual changes daily

No.	Champion	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Bull Nakano	1	June 12, 1992		Mexico City, D. F.	Super Viernes	Nakano defeated Lola González to become the first champion in the final of a 12-woman torneo cibernetico elimination match
2	Xóchitl Hamada	1	March 21, 1993		Mexico City, D. F.	Live event
3	La Diabólica	1	October 10, 1993		Mexico City, D. F.	Live event
4	Reina Jubuki	1	July 30, 1994		Puebla, Puebla	Live event
—	Vacated	—	November 4, 1996	—	N/A	N/A	CMLL stripped Reina Jubuki of the title for wrestling on WCW Monday Nitro.
5	Lady Apache	1	November 8, 1996		Mexico City, D. F.	Super Viernes	Lady Apache defeated Chaparita Asari in the finals of a four-woman tournament final to win the championship.
6	Mariko Yoshida	1	February 6, 1997		Tokyo, Japan	Live event
—	Vacated	—	February 1999	—	N/A	N/A	The championship was vacated due to inactivity in CMLL's women's division.
7	Lady Apache	2	May 15, 1999		Naucalpan, México	Live event
—	Vacated	—	August 18, 2000	—	N/A	N/A	The championship was vacated when Lady Apache left the promotion.
8	La Diabólica	2	2001		—	N/A	N/A	La Diabólica was awarded the title by CMLL as she was the number one contender at that time.
—	Vacated	—	April 2003	—	N/A	N/A	The championship was vacated when La Diabólica left the promotion.
9	Marcela	1	September 16, 2005		Mexico City, D. F.	CMLL 72nd Anniversary Show	Marcela defeated Dark Angel to win the vacant title in the final of a 12-woman tournament.
10	Hiroka	1	June 9, 2006		Mexico City, D. F.	Super Viernes
11	Lady Apache	3	December 25, 2006		Mexico City, D. F.	Live event
12	La Amapola	1	November 16, 2007		Mexico City, D. F.	Super Viernes
13	Marcela	2	October 28, 2011		Mexico City, D. F.	Super Viernes
14	Ayumi	1	November 26, 2011		Tokyo, Japan	Live event
15	Marcela	3	March 9, 2012		Mexico City, D. F.	Super Viernes
16	Syuri	1	December 12, 2014		Tokyo, Japan	Reina Joshi Puroresu Shin-Kiba Tournament
17	Marcela	4	April 10, 2015	+	Mexico City, D. F.	Super Viernes

Combined reigns

Symbol	Meaning
†	Indicates the current champion
¤	The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain; the shortest possible length is used.

Rank	Wrestler	# of reigns	Combined days
1	Marcela†	4	+
2	La Amapola	1	1,442
3	Lady Apache	3	877
4	Reina Jubuki	1	828
5	La Diabólica	2	749¤
6	Mariko Yoshida	1	725¤
7	Bull Nakano	1	282
8	Xóchitl Hamada	1	203
9	Hiroka	1	199
10	Syuri	1	119
11	Ayumi	1	104

Championship tournaments

1992 Championship tournament

CMLL held a 15-woman torneo cibernetico elimination match on June 5, 1992 to determine the two women who would fight for the newly created CMLL World Women's champion the following week. La Diabólica was originally scheduled to work the match, but did not appear which led to the uneven sides in the elimination match. Several of the participants had recently joined CMLL, leaving the Universal Wrestling Association to join CMLL and it's recently restarted women's division. Zuleyma was the reigning UWA World Women's Championship going into the match and CMLL allowed her to keep and defend the UWA championship in the years following Zuleyma's jump to CMLL. The finals came down to Lola Gonzales, a pioneer for women's wrestling in Mexico, and Bull Nakano, a Japanese wrestler that worked regularly for CMLL. The following week, on June 12, 1993 Bull Nakano became the first CMLL World Women's Champion by virtue of her victory over Lola Gonzales.

#	Eliminated	Eliminated by
1	Guerrera Purpura	Unknown
2	Selene	Unknown
3	Atenas	Unknown
4	Neftali	Unknown
5	Wendy	Unknown
6	Pantera Sureña	Unknown
7	Zuleyma	Unknown
8	Maria del Angel	Unknown
9	La Sirenita	Unknown
10	Kaoru	Unknown
11	Lady Apache	Unknown
12	Xóchitl Hamada	Unknown
13	Martha Villalobos	Lola Gonzales
14	Lola Gonzales	Winner
14}	Bull Nakano	Winner

1996 Championship tournament

On November 6, 1996 CMLL took the CMLL World Women's Championship away from then reigning champion Reina Jubuki because she had wrestled on a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) show in North America only a few days prior. At the time WCW had a working relationship with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), CMLL's main rival in Mexico and thus appearing for WCW was enough for CMLL to sever ties with Jubuki. CMLL held a tournament to crown a new champion only 2 days after announcing the title being vacated, choosing four of their top female competitors for a quick four-woman tournament.

	semifinals					Final
	1	Xochitl Hamada
	4	Lady Apache	W
						Lady Apache		W
						Chaparita Asari
	3	La Diabólica
	2	Chaparita Asari	W

2005 Championship tournament

The reigning champion, La Diabólica left CMLL to join rival Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) on April 5, 2003 which forced CMLL to vacate the championship. This happened during a time of very low activity in CMLL's female division, which meant the title was inactive for over two years before CMLL held a tournament for the title starting on September 9, 2005. CMLL held a nine-woman torneo cibernetico elimination match to determine the two finalists that would face off the next week in a best two-out-of-three falls match. Dark Angel and Marcela survived the match and met on September 16, 2005 with Marcela winning the match and her first CMLL World Women's Championship.

#	Eliminated	Eliminated by
X	Hiroka	Unknown
X	India Sioux	Unknown
X	La Medusa	Unknown
X	La Nazi	Unknown
X	Linda Star	Unknown
X	Princesa Sujei	Unknown
X	Sahori	Unknown
8	Dark Angel	Winner
8	Marcela	Winner

References

General source for title history up until 2000

Specific sources